This website has been built using the WordPress framework and the default theme Twenty Seventeen. The site is hosted by A2 Hosting . The core WordPress framework has been extended using the following plugins:
| No. | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accordions | Expandable lists used for FAQs and other information about how to use the website. |
| 2 | AJAX Login and Registration modal popup | Replaces the default login/register/forgotton password screens with a modal popup. Enables customisation of signup emails. |
| 3 | Akismet anti-spam | Checks comments and contact form submissions against a global database of spam to prevent site from publishing malicious content. |
| 4 | All in One WP Migration | Migration tool for all blog data. Import or Export blog content with a single click. |
| 5 | Archived Post Status | Enables posts (News Page) to be removed from live list by changing status to Archived. |
| 6 | Asgaros Forum | Provides forum finctionality. Integrates with users and roles. |
| 7 | Block Gallery | Displays photos in a carousel. |
| 8 | Contact Form 7 | Used to build forms for data entry. Main use is the Contact Us form. |
| 9 | Cookie Consent | Displays the cookie message bar at the foot of the screen on first visit or after cookies deletion. |
| 10 | Count Per Day | Maintains the site visit counters and displays the counts at the foot of each page. |
| 11 | Custom Meta Widget | Used to customise the sidebar displayed on the News page. |
| 12 | Easy Table of Contents | Adds a fully automatic way to create and display a table of contents generated from the page content. |
| 13 | Email Address Encode | Protects email addresses from email-harvesting robots by encoding them into decimal and hexadecimal entities. |
| 14 | EmbedPress | WordPress supports around 35 embed sources, but PublishPress Embeds adds over 40 more. |
| 15 | Eonet Project Manager | Enables projects and tasks to be maintained and displayed. |
| 16 | Flamingo | Maintains a log of messages sent to the website from any of the Contact 7 forms. Enables export of the log to a csv file |
| 17 | Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer | Retrieves data from a Google Spreadsheet and displays it as an HTML table. |
| 18 | Max Mega Menu | Automatically convert existing menu or menus into a mega menu. |
| 19 | Nav Menu Roles | Enables menu items to be role specific i.e. hidden from users with a lower role. |
| 20 | Popup Maker | Displays modal popups on demand. Used to display further details of selected items such as assets and Councillors. |
| 21 | Post Snippets | Enables blocks of text to be reused throughout the site. Mainly used for tooltips. |
| 22 | Postie | Enables posts to the News page to be sent in by email. Converts the email into a post. The Parish Council has a dedicated email address for this purpose. |
| 23 | SendPress Newsletters | Manages subscribers, maintenance of newsletters and the emailing of newsletters to subscribers. Enables read and click-through analysis of sent emails. |
| 24 | Simple Custom CSS | Enables additional CSS styling when required. |
| 25 | Simple Tooltips | Enhances tooltips (displayed on mouse hover) by setting background and text colours. |
| 26 | Stop Spammers | Stop spam emails, spam comments, spam registration, and spam bots in general. |
| 27 | TablePress | Manages the maintenance of tables and their use throughout the website. This list is an example of a TablePress table. |
| 28 | UpdraftPlus | Enables backup and restore of the website and its content. Backup files stored on the PC Google Drive. |
| 29 | User Spam Remover | Automatically removes spam user registrations and other old, never-used user accounts. Blocks annoying e-mail to administrator after every new registration. Full logging and backup of deleted data. |
| 30 | Very Simple Event List | Maintains events and their display in listings according to filters. |
| 31 | Waymark | Adds Markers, Photos, Lines and Shapes to detailed interactive Maps. |
| 32 | WP Add Mime Types | Enables specified file types to be uploaded to the website. Needed for .gpx files used on some maps. |
| 33 | WP Mail SMTP | Enables use of SMTP and external mail server. Uses the Parish Council Gmail account for all emailling. |
| 34 | WPFront Scroll Top | Allows the visitor to easily scroll back to the top of the page. |
| 35 | Yoast SEO | Search engine optimiser. |
Web map services are provided by Ordnance Survey OpenSpace and OpenStreetMap .
All photos used throughout the website were taken for the project by Staveley resident Robin Barker.
Development of the website is one of the Parish Council’s ongoing projects. Progress on the project can be seen by selecting the Parish Council Website project page.
